Keynote Speakers (in alphabetical order)
Chiba, Akihiko
Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Koizumi, Yuichiro
Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 565-0871 Suita, Japan

Maire, Éric
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, Lyon, France

Voorhees, Peter W.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

Invited Speakers (in alphabetical order)
Adachi, Yoshitaka
Department of Materials Design Innovation Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan

Ishimoto, Takuya
Aluminium Research Center, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan

Kimura, Tei-ichi
Japan Fine Ceramics Center, Nagoya, Japan

Jägle, Eric A.
Institute of Materials Science, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Neubiberg, Germany

Morishita, Kohei
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Sato, Kazuhisa
Research Center for Ultra-High Voltage Electron Microscopy, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Japan

Toda, Yoshiaki
Research Center for Structural Materials, High Temperature Materials Design Group, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan

To, Albert C.
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Yan, Wentao
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore City, Singapore

Wiezorek, Jörg M.K.
Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA